Paragraph 4
Subject to regulation 4, companies who are producers and are in a group of companies shall comply with their producer registration obligations for a relevant year by either—
(a)
being registered for that year with the appropriate Agency as required by regulation 5, in which case each company so registered has its own recovery, recycling and certifying obligations; or
(b)
the holding company and one or more of the subsidiaries being registered together for that year with the appropriate Agency, (in this Schedule and Schedule 9 referred to as a “group registration”) in which case paragraphs 5 and 6 below shall apply.